Four Reasons Why Currencies Also Beat Out Stocks in My Book

By Sean Hyman, Currency Analyst
Even some of the biggest industry players in Wall Street overlook a few simple truths that make currency trading infinitely superior to stock trading. For example…
Trading Day Lasts All Day: Currencies Trade 24 hours, nearly six days a week: That means there’s an opportunity for tradable hours no matter where you live. You can even trade after you’ve put in a full day at the office. You can’t always do that Read the rest of this entry »

Four undiscovered sites to use when investing

Sure, the economy is in bad shape. Investing now can be dangerous. But that doesn't mean you should be scared; it's also a time of opportunity. There
and thanks to the recession, shares in many of them can be acquired at a discount.
Finding those companies isn't always easy. You can go to sites like
to find data, but there are also some smaller, yet useful services that provide different perspectives.
Sometimes, especially when you're new Read the rest of this entry »

Four cardinal principles of investing

AT TIMES like these, when asset values are way down and causing you to lose sleep, you may be tempted to sell your holdings. But Peeyush Gupta, a co-founder of Australian financial planning firm ipac, is telling clients to stay the course - that is, if you have followed the four key principles of investing. These are: buy quality assets; buy them at attractive prices; diversify; and have a long horizon.
Breaching one of those key principles risks Read the rest of this entry »

Zacks Releases Four Powerful ''Buy'' Stocks: Immucor, Shenandoah

Zacks Releases Four Powerful ''Buy'' Stocks: Immucor, Shenandoah
Telecommunications, Bio-Reference Laboratories and The GEO Group
)--Four free stock picks are being made available today on Zacks.com. The
industry’s leading independent research firm highlights one Zacks #1
Rank Strong Buy or a Zacks #2 Rank Buy stock for each of the four main
styles of investing: Aggressive Growth, Growth & Income, Momentum, and Read the rest of this entry »

Landis+Gyr Unveils Four-Year Advanced Metering Contract with PG&E

Landis+Gyr is the leading provider of integrated energy management solutions tailored to energy company needs. With a global presence and a reputation for quality and innovation, Landis+Gyr is unique in its ability to deliver true end-to-end advanced metering solutions. Today, the Company offers the broadest portfolio of products and services in the electricity metering industry, and is paving the way for the next generation of smart grid. With annualized Read the rest of this entry »

Zacks Releases Four Powerful ''Buy'' Stocks: Emergency Medical

Everyone would agree they see more "Made in Taiwan/China/Japan/etc..."tags than "Made in the USA" tags for the past several
years. Well, that "Made in _____" tag on your clothing has an economic term sewn into it: trade deficit. A trade deficit happens
when one country buys more goods than it sells to other countries.
For example, if the entire United States (all 300
million of us) made only 100 shirts Read the rest of this entry »

Fed Selects Four Firms to Manage MBS Purchase Plan

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve chose BlackRock
Inc., Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Pacific Investment
Management Co. and Wellington Management Co. to manage a $500
billion purchase of mortgage-backed securities it plans to
complete by June.
“They picked the crème de la creme of the money
managers,” said
, head of mortgage-bond research at
Deutsche Bank AG in New York. “By doing $500 billion by June,
no question they’re doing Read the rest of this entry »

Four Out of Five Adults Now Use the Internet

The Harris Poll(R)
was conducted by telephone within the United States in October 2008
(October 16 and 20, 2008) and October 2008 (October 30 and November 2,
2008) among 2,020 adults (aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex,
race/ethnicity, education, region, number of adults in the household,
size of place (urbanicity) and number of phone lines in the household
were weighted where necessary to bring Read the rest of this entry »

Four Big Fat Business Plan Lies

With the economy spiraling downward, now is the worst possible time to neglect business planning. People do it because they lose track of the fundamentals. They also fall prey to the four myths about business plans. Don't get caught by any of these lies:
1. It's a big deal. It's hard to do
. No it isn't. The No. 1 biggest lie in business planning is that a business plan isn't a business plan unless it's a complex document containing a full list Read the rest of this entry »

General Patent Corporation Consummates Four More Licenses for Web

General Patent Corporation (GPC) announced today that its client, Renhcol, Inc., the owner of Patent No. 6,260,019 titled "Web-Based Prediction Marketplace," settled its patent infringement lawsuit with Pregame LLC, 1402487 Ontario Limited, IGC Entertainment Corporation and National Sports Services (IGC), Inc.
Suffern, NY (
) February 19, 2009 -- General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and patent enforcement firm, announced Read the rest of this entry »